Cruise Passengers Sick

NATIONAL DIGEST

July 24, 1995

NEW YORK - — One year after an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease struck passengers on the cruise ship Horizon, about 220 passengers on the same ship reported symptoms of salmonella poisoning, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The sickened passengers, among 1,600 aboard the ship, began suffering from diarrhea, stomach cramps and fevers beginning on Tuesday, three days after the Horizon left New York on a weeklong cruise to Bermuda and back.

6 injured by motorcycle

NEW YORK - A motorcyclist plowed into pedestrians on a busy Manhattan sidewalk Sunday and injured six people, some seriously, authorities said.

When the motorcycle jumped a curb on 49th Street at Fifth Avenue, the crowd scattered. The intersection, next to Rockefeller Center, was filled with tourists.

Six people were taken to hospitals, including a man with a broken leg, a 14-year-old girl with a broken ankle, and a man with a head injury who may have been the motorcyclist, hospital and ambulance officials said.

Gore's mom discharged

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vice President Al Gore's mother was released from the hospital in good condition after suffering a heart attack and stroke earlier this month, officials said on Sunday.

Pauline Gore, 83, first checked into Vanderbilt University Medical Center July 5, and underwent brain surgury the next day.

Ten days later she first left the hospital for her home in Carthage, Tenn., but returned three days later after complaining of chest pains. The vice president's wife, Tipper, was with her mother-in-law on Sunday and apparently accompanied her home, a hospital source said.

Striking workers warned

DETROIT - With both sides digging in on the 11th day of the strike at the city's two daily newspapers, managers at the Detroit Free Press on Sunday asked journalists to come back or risk losing their jobs.

The Guild called the move "another example of the union-busting efforts ... But we will not divided from our fellow unions."About 2,500 workers at the Free Press and The Detroit News - including circulation workers, press operators and mailers, as well as journalists - walked out on July 13.

Man decapitates son

ESTANCIA, N.M. - A man on a weekend fishing trip with his sons decided they were all possessed and beheaded his 14-year-old on a roadside while his younger son and passing drivers watched, authorities said on Sunday.

When truckers whizzing past reported what they had seen, authorities gave chase and Eric Star Smith raced away in his van, throwing his son's head out the window. He was captured after a 40-mile chase into Albuquerque early Saturday.

His son, Eric Star Smith Jr., had been stabbed at least 29 times before the beheading. His 13-year-old brother, whose name was not released, saw the beginning of what happened, then ran when Eric told him to.

Agent shot at nightclub HOUSTON - A federal drug agent's bachelor party at a topless nightclub turned violent early on Sunday when he got into a gunfight with bar managers over a $5 cover charge.

WHITTIER, Alaska - While investigators investigated the cause of an engine-room fire that disabled the cruise ship Regent Star, the approximately 840 passengers were heading home on Sunday.

Passengers were transferred to another cruise ship, the Rotterdam, on Saturday and taken to Seward, then to Anchorage or Girdwood to fly home. Seven were treated for minor injuries that included a broken wrist, bumps and bruises.

College policy reviewed

SAN FRANCISCO - White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said on Sunday that federal contracts with the University of California would be reviewed following last week's decision to scrap race and sex preferences.

Panetta said on Face the Nation on CBS that he did not know whether the state system would end up losing federal contracts.

The University of California's governing Board of Regents voted on Thursday to end a decades-old policy that gave preference to women and racial minorities in enrollment and employment at the nine-campus, 162,000-student body.